Re: [gardeners] Re: green pepper problem
George Shirley (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Thu, 17 Aug 2000 19:03:40 -0500
Any currant or raisin recipe cake will do. Only difference between a drunken
currant and a sober one is that the drunken ones are rehydrated in vodka. I
generally just use a fruit cake or raisin cake recipe out of the Betty Crocker
Cookbook.
George
Jane Burdekin wrote:
>
> I think I might like that recipe, if you are willing to share it. My
> currants are the wild ones, actually squawberries, very musty and they make
> an awesome sauce for pork roasts etc. It's actually raining here, temp 68
> according to the latest report with the wind chill brings it down to 61F
> right now. Crazy weather after being over 90 for the last 52 days, its a
> welcome break.
>
> Jane
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Shirley [mailto:gshirley@lightwire.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 3:01 PM
> To: gardeners@globalgarden.com
> Subject: Re: [gardeners] Re: green pepper problem
>
> Ahh, currants, I'm enjoying the ones that Bill Loke sent me in return for
> some
> gumbo file'. Think I'll make a drunken currant cake this weekend.
>
> George
>
> Jane Burdekin wrote:
> >
> > Yikes!!! More than 80 at night. I've been complaining about it staying
> > above 60 at night. Going camping this weekend and the over night temps up
> > there are supposed to be 38F for the low, now that is comfortable.
> Doesn't
> > do much for growing tho, the season up there is about over. I'll be taking
> > along the ziplocks just in case there was enough moisture to have currants
> > ripen.
> >
> > Jane
> > zone 5 (4 at the mountain property) Colorado
> >
> > Your nighttime temps are in the 80's? Can Miz Anne, Sleepy Dawg, and me
> move
> > in
> > with you? It's too blasted hot down here. We should be seeing the temps
> > start to
> > drop in anticipation of what passes for autumn and fall but instead they
> are
> > still rising. As they say in Cajun Land, "It's hot yeah!"
> >
> > George
> >
> > Dorsett wrote:
> > >
> > > > Are peppers like tomatoes where you can gently beat them up and
> > > > they come on like
> > > > gang busters?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Okie zone 7a
> > > > aka " Ranchmama "
> > > > ***************************************
> > >
> > > Yes, they self pollinate to some degree. But they're more sensitive to
> > > temperature extremes than tomatoes are.
> > >
> > > They don't set fruit well in very hot weather...I sometimes have blossom
> > > drop problems in July, when nighttime temperatures are too high...in the
> > > 80sF...or too low, 55F or so.
> > >
> > > Barb in Southern Indiana Zone 5/6 dorsett@blueriver.net
> > > A root is a flower that disdains fame.